New York Times bestselling author Eric Flint
continues his Ring of Fire series with esteemed science fiction author Charles
E. Gannon.

It’s springtime in the Eternal City, 1635. But it’s no Roman
holiday for uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna.
They’re in the clutches of would-be Pope Cardinal Borgia, with the real Pope—Urban
VI—on the run with the renegade embassy of uptime Ambassador Sharon Nichols and
her swashbuckling downtime husband, Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz. Up to their
necks in papal assassins, power politics, murder, and mayhem, the uptimers and
their spouses need help—and they need it quickly.

Special rescue teams, including Harry Lefferts and his
infamous Wrecking Crew, converge on Rome to extract Frank and Gia. An uptime
airplane is on its way to spirit the Pope to safety before Borja’s assassins
can find him. It seems that everything is going to work out just fine in sunny
Italy.

Until, that is, everything goes wrong. Now, whether they are prisoners
in Rome or renegades protecting a pope on the run, it’s up to the rough and
ready can-do attitude of Grantville natives to once again escape the clutches
of aristocratic skullduggery and ring in freedom for a war-torn land.

" In the same stripe as the others this one does go back to focusing more on the personal lives and trials of the characters. Not quite as many long discussions of the political mechanations of the era. "

Jeff Bequette | 5/17/2013

" Just getting started with this one. I like the oppertunity to learn about the time period as well as the perambulations caused by the up-timers. "

Maurynne | 4/7/2013

" I keep reading them...there are always too many spots of exposition or technical details, but I do love the series. "

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About the Author

Eric Flint is the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling 1632 series. His first novel, Mother of Demons, was picked by the Science Fiction Chronicle as a best novel of the year. He has written a variety of other science fiction and fantasy works, including the Heirs of Alexandria series, the Rats, Bats, and Vats series, and a number of solo novels. Flint is the editor of the Baen Free Library, a place for authors to post entirely free copies of their work. He has also edited a number of science fiction classics by authors such as Christopher Anvil, Murray Leinster, and James H. Schmitz. He currently resides in East Chicago, Indiana, with his wife, Lucille.

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